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This Alan Carpenter rok was really misbehaving when I tried to fly it for the first time I've never been so annoyed with a kite...I tried numerous adjustments to both spreader bow lines and bridle. All it wanted to do was start upward and then just spin and crash...

Have you flown roks before? Put a lot of bow in the spreaders. Lower the tow point to where the kite will barely lift. Try to fly it and if it stabilizes, move the tow point gradually up for a better flight angle.

Can you give us a picture of the back of the kite? In the front picture it looks as though the top spreader is bowed already and not aligned with the top bridle points. What positions and holds the spreaders in place so they are straight from pocket to pocket? Typically I would expect to find a spar tunnel / loop, a ribbon tie or even an O-ring between the spine and spreader.

The posted pic is only the one from the seller. The kite is not properly set up in the pic. I used the builders inscribed instructions for bowing etc. I will post a showing the back of the kite set to specs. May take a day or two, or three...

looking at my roller kites this one looks a lot like the top half of the roller rather than a rok which is more symmetrical all around the spars. so maybe like the roller has the lower sail this kite could be stabilized with twin tails or a scoop or some sort. or maybe it is a truncated roller?

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